At this morning’s press day for “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” in theaters this Friday, we had a chance to ask actor Jason Schwartzman about working in different formats. “Fox” is Schwartzman’s first foray into the realm of animation, though he still feels he hasn’t quite experienced the animation genre.

“Animated is more like one guy in the recording booth,” he says. “I felt like this wasn’t it; it was like all of these actors together running around a farm, digging in the ground, and pretending to be foxes and howling and the sound guy running after us with a microphone.”

“Fox” isn’t Schwartzman’s first collaboration with director Wes Anderson — he’s worked with him on three other projects, including the short film “Hotel Chevalier.” Schwartzman also talked about the differences in working on short films as compared to other formats.

“It’s an incredible way to work because it’s, you know, three days — or in our case, it was two days,” he says. “I think it’s really hard to work in such a short amount of time, because in a movie those first five days are really hard, because everybody’s getting to know each other, and you find that groove, you do begin to learn things. But in a short film, you have to find that groove much more quickly, because you don’t have the second week.”

The actor’s newest hit — the HBO original series “Bored to Death” — also wrapped up its inaugural eight-episode season last night, and he touched on that as well.

“It felt like we were doing a movie,” he says. “What makes it different than a movie and ultimately very challenging, but a good challenge, is that every week it’s a different director — every week you have a whole new collaborator.”

But that can bring its own challenges, he continued.

“You have to know and trust that person, to be directed by a person is really fun, but you’re also like — for someone like me, ‘Should I do it like this, or should I do it like that?'” he says. “To be like, ‘Do it like that,’ that’s a scary feeling, because you’re basically putting your decisions in someone else’s hands.”